USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why did the United States participate in the Washington Naval Conference and the Kellog-Briand Pact?
A
to reduce barriers to international trade
B
to form military alliances as a defense against aggression
C
to work with other nations to prevent future wars
D
to expand American influence over Asia and Latin America
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The goal was to keep the world’s treaty powers from engaging in a naval arms race. The Kellogg Briand Pact of 1928, which was based on the League of Nations’ success, was a treaty aimed at avoiding the use of war as a means of resolving disputes between states.

Detailed explanation-2: -The United States and France drafted the treaty, officially known as the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, in the decade following the end of World War I. This historic treaty pursued the lofty goal of ending war.

Detailed explanation-3: -Between 1921 and 1922, the world’s largest naval powers gathered in Washington for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia.

Detailed explanation-4: -It soon became clear that there was no way to enforce the pact or sanction those who broke it; it also never fully defined what constituted “self-defense, ” so there were many ways around its terms. In the end, the Kellogg-Briand Pact did little to prevent World War II or any of the conflicts that followed.

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